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title: צָעַר — be insignificant · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צָעַר (6819), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: be insignificant. BDB 1906: vb. be grow, insignificant. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צָעַר

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«צָעַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be insignificant** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 6819 · **BDB:** צָעַר

### Glosses

they.are.insignificant (1); they.will.be.insignificant (1); who.are\].insignificant (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be insignificant [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6819/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be grow, insignificant [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6819/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be, or grow, insignificant (‖ זער; NH id., Assyrian ṣeḫêru, be small, Arabic صَغُرَ id.; Syriac ܨܥܰܪ be insignificant, despicable; 𝔗 צְעַר trans. despise, belittle);— Impf. (opp. כָּבֵד), 3 mpl. יִצְעֲרוּ Jb 14:21, יִצְעָ֑רוּ Je 30:19; Pt. as subst. הַצֹּעֲרִים Zc 13:7 (i.e. sheep, in fig., cf. Now).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צָעַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6819/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 14:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.21/)

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יִכְבְּד֣וּ בָ֭נָיו וְלֹ֣א יֵדָ֑ע וְ֝יִצְעֲר֗וּ וְֽלֹא־יָבִ֥ין לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* they.are.honored sons his and not he.knows and they.are.insignificant and not he.perceives (to) it

*JPS 1917:* His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he regardeth them not.

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[Jeremiah 30:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.30.19/)

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וְיָצָ֥א מֵהֶ֛ם תּוֹדָ֖ה וְק֣וֹל מְשַׂחֲקִ֑ים וְהִרְבִּתִים֙ וְלֹ֣א יִמְעָ֔טוּ וְהִכְבַּדְתִּ֖ים וְלֹ֥א יִצְעָֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.go.out from them thanksgiving and.\[the\] sound of.merry.makers and I will.multiply.them and not they.will.diminish and I will.make.them.honored and not they.will.be.insignificant

*JPS 1917:* And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry; and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished, I will also increase them, and they shall not dwindle away.

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